Our Housemates

Tommy: The Daily Talk Show.

Josh: It's The Daily Talk Show, episode 915.

Tommy: Happy Monday, Gronks. What's happening? What is going on?

Josh: Are you feeling fresh? You, uh, you went away on the weekend.

Tommy: Yeah, went away. It was nice. Um, it was, it was quite hot last night, so I had, you know, when you wake up and you feel like a bit dry after a sort of hot night's sleep. Had the aircon. I worked out that our house, there's only one aircon. Problem in the modern day. But if you open the double doors in our lounge room, it— you can feel it come through, wrap around the door, and it just comes into our room, which is lovely.

Josh: Oh, that's great.

Tommy: So, um, no, but feeling good, feeling good. Had a great weekend away. I thought, um, rather than sort of tell you all my highlights, I'll tell you some of the lowlights. But I'll tell you, and they're mostly about Bodhi. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to replace the term son or my son Bodhi or Bodhi with my housemate just for a bit of fun. So I'm just gonna refer to my son as my housemate. So I mean, we'll kickstart today before we get back into previous, so over the weekend. So I woke up this morning, my housemate pissed on the seat. And—

Josh: What seat?

Tommy: The toilet seat. Oh, okay. But he didn't wipe it up. And then my housemate goes into, my room and goes over to my wife's bedside table and drinks her smoothie, the whole thing.

Josh: Yeah.

Tommy: My housemate, he's a dog. What else? So, another one is, yeah, you woke up, my housemate had, he's been bitten by mosquitoes and he's been scratching them and it's, there's blood on his sheets.

Josh: Oh no.

Tommy: The worst thing about my housemate, he doesn't know how to use the washing machine, so I have to wash the Gronkh's sheets.

Josh: It's so annoying. You went away with your housemate on the weekend. Yeah. What was that like?

Tommy: Oh yeah, it was great. I mean, it was great. I made him— I made my housemate bacon and eggs one morning, like these real nice bacon and egg rolls. He never cooks. He's so lazy like that. And I, um, I made them and I brought them over, sat it on the table. He looks at it and says, I don't like these. And then he opens it up and says, I don't like egg, I don't like bacon. And then he licked the sauce and walked off.

Josh: Is this new? Has he always not liked egg and bacon?

Tommy: I think it was just that day, 'cause the following day I made him the same one and he ate it, surprisingly. I just was, you know, fingers crossed. Hope he doesn't realize. Another one was I was, we were, because we went down to Mount Martha, down the peninsula, and it's nice. It's like a little, it feels like a little coastal town. I mean, it's on the bay. It's not ocean, but it has that definitely coastal surfy vibe, but without the surf. Great little IGA, went into IGA, and my housemate, he didn't have any money and he wanted me to buy him some chips. And so I was like, fuck, all right, get you a packet of chips. I just said, well, look, let's just— he wanted to eat them in the shop and I didn't want him to eat them in shop. So I said, let's just scan it through. Scan it through, as I've scanned it through, I put the bag down, my housemate grabbed the chips and ran out the front door. Run out the door of the shopping centre and I'm by myself. So I— and then my phone fucking— I couldn't pay, there was something going on. So I took a cut, you know, 20 seconds, paid. I went out the front, my housemate's gone. He's done a runner. The little dog has done a runner. Well, I couldn't find him for a little bit, and then I ran down the street and saw him way up, and then I got to him I said to my housemate, why did you run off on me? He said, I wanted to go dancing.

Josh: Has he got good spatial awareness? Does he see cars?

Tommy: Yeah, he sees them. Does he know about the dangers of them? Not sure. Not sure. Like, you know what I mean?

Josh: You—

Tommy: I always tell my housemate, cars are dangerous. You could get squashed by a car.

Josh: Don't you think that there's always, like, I remember in primary school, I don't know if this was every primary school, but I feel like there was always one kid who'd been hit by a car out the front. And you would know because they would have like metal like coming out of their head or what, like holding their head up sort of thing. Did you ever have that?

Tommy: No, but I've seen— So sad anytime you do see that. It's the Oh, there's a term for them, something of life, like they're— it, yeah, it's basically like the screws into the side of your head, front and back, so you can't move your neck whatsoever. It's so bad.

Josh: And so anyway, yeah, in primary school, yeah, I remember one girl, I think Katie was her name, who ran across the road to get a basketball. Bang.

Tommy: Oh God.

Josh: And so that, like, that's the thing that I worry about when I think about your housemate leaving the store, is, is he going to notice the cars?

Tommy: Well, no, he's pretty good. Like, he's never done it, and you just hope that he's not going to. And so, I mean, but this is the thing, split second, and it's like at a music festival with your friend, you lose them. With your housemate, you just— they run out the supermarket, they're gone. Anyway, the worst bit was, um, he— I caught my housemate almost about to take a shit in the garden of this holiday house we were staying at. What a grog! I'm gonna get rid of this guy. Look, you know, we've signed a short-term lease.

Josh: It's called life.

Tommy: Hard to get him gone.

Josh: What do you say when you see him going to take a dump in the backyard? What do you say?

Tommy: What are you doing? He's just denying, denying. Come on. I just had to get him inside. I had to get him inside, you know.

Josh: Why do you think he was— What was he wanting to do? So is it, I need to go to the toilet, but I don't want to use the toilet?

Tommy: No, it's fun.

Josh: I think he thinks it's fun. Okay, sure.

Tommy: He has some fun outside. He likes, I mean, my housemate and I like to do wees outside. It's fun. It's different. It's something, it's something about it. There's something I really like. If I was camp, you know, camping in the bushes, like there's something about just doing wees outside that we both love and get around. But, you know, I've got an understanding of when it's right and wrong. My housemate doesn't. So.

Josh: So, what was the highlight? What was the best thing about getting away?

Tommy: Oh, just, we had a beach day on Saturday. Amy stayed at the house and sort of had a nap, which was nice. She could have that. And then we, Bodhi and I, we went to, I want to keep calling you my housemate. But we, no, we went stand-up paddleboarding and— Oh, really? Here's the thing.

Josh: Did they have those boards at the place you're staying or did you have to rent them or?

Tommy: No, we're at a beach box. And so, it's right on the, you know, it's on the sand. So, I didn't have to take it from the house, which was good. It was like, take it out of the beach box, you know, 30 metres to the, 20 metres to the water. And then there we go. But it was awesome. And here's the thing, there was 2 days on the weekend. I look at the weather, I'm like, fuck, Sunday, hot. It's gonna be 30s. That's a beach day. And then I was like, ah, you know what? Sunday, annoying. Like when you do your beach day and then you got to go home and it's just like you've—

Josh: Sand in the car.

Tommy: Tuckers you out. And so Saturday, woke up, beautiful. It was like magnificent weather, not hot, but the sun was out. And as the day went on, it got warm, but wasn't stinking hot. Perfect for taking a kid to the beach so they're not, you know, just baking, just baking in the water. But so we ended up just, yeah, it was kind of impromptu. We didn't know we're gonna do that. Bodhi and I just had a ripper time just, you know, sitting there. And then we went and had fish and chips at the Beach Box that night, which was sick.

Josh: And so the paddleboarding stuff, how long do you think you were actually out there on the water for?

Tommy: Oh, 10 minutes. Like with a kid, I put a little life jacket on him and I couldn't stand. I wasn't standing up on it, I was kneeling on the paddleboard. Bodhi's like lying flat at the front of it. It was a big one, but I got up and I was like, ah, fucking, I can't. I can look after myself if I fall in. He doesn't know how to swim. And so I was like, kneeling is the best option. But we had a great time just paddleboarding around. But then Saturday night, the thing about, you know, when you want Fry, you know, you want like— I don't, I don't eat fried fish a heap. Like, I— it reminds me of a kid getting flake, fried flake from the fish shop.

Josh: Adults get flake. I get like— I like—

Tommy: no, no, I get flake still, but I usually, I usually go the other side.

Josh: I go the potato sort of the fry.

Tommy: I go, I go my fried stuff of that dish will be in chips or a potato cake or something. I don't go the fish. I'm like, ah, fuck. I went full fried on Saturday night.

Josh: Was it crumb or was it— Because I've only discovered sort of crumbed fried fish in recent years. That's really good. That's like, it's almost like a schnitzel.

Tommy: Yeah, I know. Well, it's like you feel less naughty than going a full sort of buttery deep fried.

Josh: But I think I like it more. I like it more, the sort of fried crumb thing. And so you had a piece of flake. What else? Did you have a dimmie?

Tommy: Yeah, it went— no, I had a scallop, calamari, chips, but it was all fried. And it was everything that you'd ever want in something that you've ordered fried.

Josh: And so you picked it up from the fish and chip shop.

Tommy: I mean, what a business. I mean, in the worst possible way, like the, you know, they do a lot. It's like an old-school fish and chippery that's just, you know, there's no— seems like there's no rhyme or reason what's happening. There's a bain-marie full of orders that are wrapped and no one's yelling out names. And this poor woman—

Josh: Did you phone it in? Like, did you call first?

Tommy: No.

Josh: Did you— you did the order? Okay.

Tommy: We went in, which was— that was a punt, and went in and ordered, but it worked out fine. But this lady next to me had been waiting as long as I had and her order had been there. She just hadn't said anything.

Josh: Oh no.

Tommy: They must have read it. They must have said it, but then she went over and said, "Oh, have you got this?" By the, like, at the very end. And then, yeah.

Josh: Anyway. It is upsetting when that stuff happens and you see it. Like, I want to be across everyone's order in the actual, because I'm so concerned that I'm going to forget mine or they're going to give me the wrong one. It's like when COVID was all just sort of taking off and it was about to go viral. And yeah, it did.

Tommy: Yeah, it went hard.

Josh: Yeah. And yeah, someone, a couple got our coffees, grabbed our coffees and went to their car. And I knew that was our coffee. Yeah. And so, they had to, and then they were going to give us back the coffee. Like, I think they'd nearly put their lips on it. It's like, come on, guys.

Tommy: Absolutely not. I mean, I've sipped someone's coffee at a cafe before by accident. Like, it's annoying, like, but I'd been handed something and I just—

Josh: Well, it's your coffee at that point.

Tommy: Well, yeah, you've got to take it, you've got to own it. Is there anything your housemate did, uh, that over the weekend that, uh, yeah, it's got to you? I mean, you could go the opposite, your housemate did some really nice stuff.

Josh: Yeah, no, the housemate said, ah, Like I said, let's not worry about cleaning. And she said, I'll clean just a little bit, but I won't mop. Before you know it, the mop's out and she's like, I just like the smell. Like, it'll be quick. So, she bloody mopped when I said I told her not to and she did it. So, that was annoying. Yeah. What else has my housemate done?

Tommy: Did you get a coffee? Did your housemate buy you coffee on Saturday morning? Just in bed? Yeah.

Josh: Did you wake up to that? Actually, the— My housemate got me coffee this morning. She's got the day off today and she's going to see her family in the suburbs. Anyway, she went and got me coffee. I went downstairs, collected it from her, and then she went to the suburbs. So, I didn't have to go to the café.

Tommy: So, that was good.

Josh: But I should— 2021, like New Year's resolutions, this is a good time. It's ridiculous to think about talking— don't you think it sounds absolutely absurd to talk about New Year's resolutions?

Tommy: We're 14, 15 days off December 1st. I did think this morning, literally in my mind, I was like, what if we did— what if we— because it's too obvious to do the, you know, New Year's content, like the New Year's resolutions content within January. What about if you go December 1st You see it as like the New Year's resolutions. I mean, the thing that comes into play for most people is like, "Yeah, but I want to just sort of let loose over the Christmas break." Yeah.

Josh: No, I think it's different. Like, I feel potentially, I don't know how everyone else is feeling, but it's going to be a little bit different where it's like I've been indulging and just being a bit loose all year. So, I feel like I want like family, friends, all that sort of thing, but also a little bit of structure.

Tommy: Yeah, definitely. I mean, most people's year have been— it's probably been pretty outrageous just in terms of routine, rattling of routine. Yeah, it's unlike any other year. I mean, this— it is— it's been like— we were talking about the— when we— when you first— I wonder when the first mention of COVID-19 or coronavirus, because everyone was calling it coronavirus, the start was on this show.

Josh: And it was probably when we had Jordan Michaelides on.

Tommy: You reckon that was it?

Josh: That was— when was that? That was, that was in January, I think.

Tommy: Was it? Well, we had, um, end of Bodhi's— we had Bodhi's third birthday in February. His birthday's on the 14th, and a guy who was at Bodhi's party had quarantined. He'd been in Wuhan. One of the kids' dads works in logistics and was over in Wuhan. And so, he'd done the quarantine. So, we would talk. I was curious and just chatting to him about it. What's going on? Like, what was it like over there? And so, that was so early though. That was Feb. And then it was, it seemed like it really just came hard.

Josh: And then it's like we haven't spoken about Wuhan. Yeah, but we haven't spoken about Wuhan in a long time.

Tommy: I know.

Josh: Do you think? Yeah. Yes, okay, so December—

Tommy: They're not doing as bad as most of the— around the world, they went pretty hard.

Josh: So, December 1st, do you want to do a bit of a New Year's resolution sort of episode?

Tommy: Yeah, I reckon. I reckon that's when it's too obvious outside of that. And I think it's like a good way to at least start embedding in your mind. Oh, that's perfect. A Tuesday, December 1st is a Tuesday.

Josh: Great.

Tommy: Um, embed them in your mind for the rest of the month at least. Sort of, you have a little— the thing about it is you— it's like saying I'll eat shit over the weekend, then Monday I'm all good, I'll start then. It's like, it's— you, you've got too much momentum in the wrong direction. Yeah. And so January, after momentum from December, dude, that's an avalanche.

Josh: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tommy: I'd like to stop shit.

Josh: Yeah, yeah. I think even, I mean, I, I remember writing a blog post years ago where it's like I would do my New Year's resolutions in September, so I would fuck up enough times that by the end of December I'd got my shit sorted. Yeah, but, um, I mean, the, uh, you know how I got a bike? Yeah, I've got my, um, the spin, spin, the spin bike. I did it. It's okay. It's got problems in regards to the sturdiness. It was one of those. What'd you pay? $300.

Tommy: Yeah, I mean, the good ones are like $1,200. Like, they— I had one in my PT studio, though. Fuck. And that thing even went a bit rattly.

Josh: So the thing is, I went to a mate's house and she was like, you got to try this bike, right? And Bree, she'd mentioned it to Bree first, which is good because these types of purchases, if it's just me, it's going to be an uphill battle, um, high incline as they say, uh, in the athletic world, cycling. But how about this? I sit on the bike, I start riding. It's got a screen, it's like the— it's a NordicTrack It's like a, um, a Peloton competitor.

Tommy: Yeah.

Josh: Anyway, I start riding, I'm like, oh man, your fans are so good in here. She's like, oh no, that's the bike. The bike had fans on my face and I was, I was like riding in Colorado and there was a, a woman like telling me, okay, keep going, you're gonna feel that it's gonna get a bit harder now. And the whole thing Like, I have to use like this little knob here to try and like, you know, create more resistance. This thing, yeah, yeah, has magnets. It's ridiculous. Anyway, so yeah, it's got the full screen.

Tommy: So some of these at the gym I've been have the, the blower, the, um, the face, like, it is amazing. So good aircon.

Josh: But I feel like a New Year's resolution could could be somewhere surrounding that sort of thing.

Tommy: Because the thing is, earn it, earn it. You, you have to— December, every day in December, you use the, the one you've got.

Josh: I think I'd fuck my back if I did, to be honest. I may have already ordered it, so, so if I have it by December— but I will, I'll, um, I'm very excited because it's going to mean that you can set, you can set up different places and so, because I wanted the Peloton, but the problem was the Peloton you can't get here. Why? They just don't ship.

Tommy: Okay, okay, okay. So this is, it's got a full plasma, it's got an LCD. What is the screen?

Josh: What's the dimensions? I think it's 22 inches.

Tommy: 22 inches.

Josh: Babe, we're not just buying a bike, we're buying a TV. So when you work out, we're not just buying a bike, we're buying an iPad.

Tommy: Is it smart? Does it connect to the interweb?

Josh: Yeah, so it's, um, it has iFit, which is their, um, which they have like dozens of trainers. And so you can either stream live, uh, in a spin class. But what I'm most excited about is you can, uh, ride around different parts of the world, which is— this is what I was trying to do. Like, I, uh, my bike set, it's got like a, um, a screen and the screen is like a, um, what you would see on like one of those free, um, pedometers that you get in like a cereal box, which is fine. If anyone, anyone in Melbourne wants my old bike, I am selling that. Um, but that's going to be my— that's going to be my, um, uh, gym. Yeah, like it's equipment like this is always interesting how you justify it. It's like, okay, well, yeah, a gym member. Think about my Fitness First membership. Yeah, spent a year, year with that not using it. So if I actually use it— and then it was perfect, I was watching this YouTube video and this guy's saying, you know what, if you want one, you've got to get the one that you want. You've got to get the one. If you don't get the one that you want, if you get the lower one or if you get the— what's going to end up happening is it's going to become a clothes hanger. You're not going to use it. You're not going to get excited about it. You're not going to be passionate about it. You're not going to use it. And so I was very passionate about—

Tommy: was this the guy from NordicTrack? No, no, the sales guy.

Josh: I'm sure.

Tommy: Hey, I'm Brad.

Josh: He was a reseller. He was a reseller. But, um, I get it. It's got leaderboards and stuff too. So if there is any other gronks that are using iFit or using that, I would never heard of it. Yeah, it's, um, I don't know if it's just for— because the thing with Nordic is like, I went down a rabbit hole of all of their stuff. They have, um, it's part of like their treadmills, like all of that stuff.

Tommy: Okay, okay.

Josh: It might be their software.

Tommy: Yeah, yeah. Wow. I mean, fuck, the treadmills are amazing.

Josh: Yeah. And the thing that was interesting was the, um—

Tommy: this is great.

Josh: And this is it. This is the other justification. It's like, okay, we go on trips every single year, we go overseas, we, you know, spend all this money. We're not going to be able to do as much of that. So yeah, so anyway, that's, that's my December. So that's, yeah, that's going to be my, uh, December-January thing. But I've decided— I ended up— it's one of those things where it's like they ask you, do you want to assemble it or, um, they can assemble it for you? And Bree actually said, let's get someone to assemble it.

Tommy: So we got it. I mean, when, when you've got a piece of equipment like that, you want it. I opted for no assembly of a cable crossover machine that had about 40,000 parts, and I got— I, I paid my mate in kebabs and a six-pack, and he came over and he's like a technical guy, knows how to do shit, knows how to construct things, put shit together. And we did it. But by the end of it, you've got a piece on the ground, you're like, where is that from?

Josh: You just don't want that. You don't need that. The ads are so funny of these things though as well, because it's always like, and that's where you end up going, it's like, oh, two hot people. Like there's this like sort of inner city sort of building. It's like big glass buildings and in one building there's this hot guy, in the other building there's a hot girl and they're like working out to get, like they're all like competing at the same time. And Bri's like, they're gonna have sex after this, aren't they? Like that's the narrative. But yeah, I am excited. Do you know what? I'm fucking classic 'cause do you know what I told myself? I'm like, you know what?

Tommy: What?

Josh: Not gonna mention the bike, just gonna get it. Everyone's gonna be like, wow, Josh, like, man, you're so fit. I'm gonna start like fucking like all of a sudden I'll be like cycling out and about as well. They will be like, how did you do it? I'll be like, I actually got this bike, I didn't tell anyone, but I haven't even got it yet and I've managed to bring it up.

Tommy: Oh well, it's maybe on December 1st you can tell us. Will it be here by then?

Josh: Yeah, I hope so. Yep, 5-day delivery. I don't know about the assembly stuff. I think I'll find out today what the deal is.

Tommy: But, um, or maybe by then you can, um, uh, you can have a, uh, an understanding of how you're going to tackle the month of December.

Josh: Well, yeah, I think that there's a, um, yeah, that you get the sense that you could do— because what do I love? I love technology. The other cool thing about it is that it comes with, uh, weights as well, so I can do a little upper body. I can do an upper body sort of thing at the same time, but, um, I don't know, is that the idea that they actually promote doing weights on the bike while riding? Well, no, no. What they actually do is that the screen moves, and so the idea is that you can move it and then you can do some like other stuff at the same time if you want to sort of switch. But I think where I'm more inclined is it's like the learning about different places because they're going along. Yeah, you're riding along and they're like, okay, you'll see some like bear— like, not bears, what are they called? Or some sort of like animal, and you actually can see the animal, and she's talking about it, and she's saying, oh, so a little bit about me, um, you know, I've got 2 kids, uh, one's 12, one's 6. I've been riding for over 20 years.

Tommy: High prod value.

Josh: Yeah, it looks really good, shot really well. Yeah, and the thing is that when you're going up the hill in the video it does all the magnetic stuff to make like it, to give you the proper resistance. And then they're saying things like, yeah, they definitely, they say things like, ah, um, uh, well, this is definitely one of those, if, if we had clean the seat campaign, I mean, when it comes to an exercise.

Tommy: Oh no, how about this? How about you keep your other one and then, I mean, you probably signed a deal with Breeze that you have to sell it.

Josh: Well, yeah, Breeze said, I mean, but I'll sell for very cheap. Do you like— I was like, what about the $150? You can have it. Do you want it?

Tommy: That's a bargain. Half price. What about having it so you— I mean, you got two, like you can have someone.

Josh: No, the problem is though, think about the apartment. No, think about our apartment. It's like it's going to fit perfectly. Like it's going to be one thing. But yeah, you do have that vision. You do have that vision a little bit where it's like, you could— I could imagine people who are super wealthy just having NordicTrack everything. Like, you know, those arm things that you were talking about, they have a version that's got a screen on it. Anything that has a screen on it.

Tommy: Lifestyle fitness, these are— they're much cheaper. But you see, this is like, there's nothing more impressive when you go to a gym and they've got just the same brand, it's kitted out, everything. It's like, wow, fucking look at these $40,000 treadmills.

Josh: But yeah, so it's hitting the two things. It's gonna, you know, it's got my exercise, it's got my feeling of travel. I am slightly worried about motion sickness. I did ask my friend about that. She said there was only one time where it was very hilly, but she was saying like, um, like in a city, like in like the hustle and bustle of Vietnam and stuff, they're like, they've got ones where it's like through traffic and stuff.

Tommy: Is it renders or is it real life?

Josh: It's like recorded with multiple cameras.

Tommy: Holy shit.

Josh: Yeah, it is so— like, it is like— because you hear— when you hear people talk about it, they're always talking about the Peloton. In regards to like doing the bit of research, Peloton is the— I'm, um, I'm in a, uh, studio sort of like that. If you want that sort of— if If you like spin classes, I think that the Peloton's probably got more classes. But the other thing too is if you're into live, all of those classes are in the night, but Nordic does it as well. So, I could, if I wanted to, do a livestream class, which is sort of cool.

Tommy: Oh, this is great. Well, this is gonna be good. December 1st, we know what you're kicking off. Then we can, I'll start thinking about what mine is. Um, and then, uh, yeah, activate before the new year, before 2021 comes.

Josh: Yeah, there's something in— oh, how about this? So there is the whole theory around when you tell your, um, uh, your New Year's resolution, you're less likely to do it because it, it sort of triggers everything in the brain that gives you the reward as if you have done it. What about the idea we have to decide by December 1st what our New Year's resolution is, and then at the end, maybe episode 1000, we reveal what our New Year's resolutions were.

Tommy: All right. I love that.

Josh: The only thing is it doesn't really give us much for the December 1st chat.

Tommy: Just did you do your—

Josh: Unless there's a metric thing. Unless we keep it broad where it's like, I'm going to ride the bike. But then I do the maths around, okay, we could all put in an envelope, this is my goal, this is what we're going to get to it. And because I feel like then it's more, I'm more likely to do it. Yeah.

Tommy: No, it's good.

Josh: Good one. Also went to Mexican Cantina as well on Saturday night.

Tommy: That was cool. I did see a photo of you and your parents.

Josh: Look, mum loves a pic.

Tommy: 65. As they say, the home of the Caesar salad.

Josh: No, no, no. I looked, they didn't do the salad. Caesar salad, but they, um, they do a great La Combination. Uh, yeah, it's great. It's got a bit of everything. It's got a, got a taco, taquito, a little like enchilada.

Tommy: Is that, is that, um, is that Mexican?

Josh: I guess it's, yeah, Spanish. Yeah, yeah, La Combination. I don't know. All right guys, it means, uh, the combo.

Tommy: Happy Monday.

Josh: Great. Have a good one guys. See ya.

Tommy: See you tomorrow.